Message-ID: <499199BF.1020301@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2009-02-10T15:14:07Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: ISOdatetime gives NA for a specific date
In-Reply-To: <21934989.post@talk.nabble.com>
pbarros wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using ISOdatetime, and I just found out that when I do
> ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0) (or any other value under minutes or seconds)
> I get NA
>
> This does not happen with the same time in other dates, nor with different
> hours in the same date.
> Any hint why this happens?
>
> Using R 2.8.1 under ESS/GnuEmacs under Windows XP
>
> Pedro
Daylight savings time, I guess. The clock went directly from 1:59 to
3:00 that day. Other systems behave strangely (er, "handle the anomaly")
in different ways:
> ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,1,10,0)
[1] "1995-03-26 01:10:00 CET"
> ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,2,10,0)
[1] "1995-03-26 01:10:00 CET"
> ISOdatetime(1995,03,26,3,10,0)
[1] "1995-03-26 03:10:00 CEST"
(SUSE 10.2)
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